Simone Andrea Biagini 🏳️‍🌈

The SMBE IDEA Task Force stands with all women doing science: cis and trans, in every country, under every condition. In war zones, under authoritarian regimes, where their existence is an act of resistance.

March 8 carries weight. Science is only as strong as who it includes.

#WomenInSTEM #March8

Just remembered that time peer reviewers told me to remove "surprisingly" and "unexpectedly" from my paper.

Apparently I was not allowed to have feelings about my own results.

#AcademicSky

Charles Darwin once wrote: "I am very poorly today and very stupid and hate everybody and everything."

The father of evolutionary theory was just as done with everyone's shit as we are. #AcademicSky

Just a few more days to submit abstracts to #SMBE2026 in beautiful Copenhagen.

🗓️Deadline 3nd February

We are organizing
S01: Evolutionary-informed management of vulnerable populations in a rapidly changing world.

Hope to see many of you there!

👋 Hi #AcademicSky!

Together with @smbe-idea.bsky.social I’m organizing a symposium at #SMBE2026 (Copenhagen) 🇩🇰

🌈 Our mission is to 𝗮𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗶𝗳𝘆 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗿𝗲𝗽𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗰𝗲𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝗺𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘂𝗹𝗮𝗿 𝗯𝗶𝗼𝗹𝗼𝗴𝘆 & 𝗲𝘃𝗼𝗹𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻

📣 Call for abstracts 𝗢𝗣𝗘𝗡
⏰ Deadline: 𝗙𝗲𝗯 𝟯

✨ Hope to see you there! 😉

@official-smbe.bsky.social

Antifa is short for anti-fascist. It’s ridiculous that we even have to explain this. Turning a word that literally means opposition to fascism into a scare label only works because so many idiots don’t bother to check the basics. Open a book that isn’t the fucking Bible.

ALWAYS ANTI-FASCIST.

Rejection is redirection. Unless they’re rejecting your paper. Then it’s just money for your therapist. #AcademicSky

SMBE2026 IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution

SMBE2026 IDEA Symposium: Advancing Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Accessibility in Molecular Biology and Evolution

@smbe-idea.bsky.social

📨 Abstract submission
smbe2026.org/abstracts

📋 Programme details
smbe2026.org/programme

#SMBE2026

Updating #RStudio is always the greatest wrong decision you can make if you care about ever having a life again. #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky

VSC Success Story | Discoveries from Sint-Truiden YouTube video by Vlaams Supercomputer Centrum

🚨 New VSC Success Story!
Ancient DNA from Sint-Truiden reveals 1,000 years of ancestry, migration & community life — including evidence of 14th-century plague unseen in historical records.

Powered by VSC supercomputing.
🎥 Watch: youtu.be/cciqwPZMkfk

#VSC #HPC #AncientDNA #Genomics #History

November is Native American Heritage Month - a time to elevate the histories, cultures, and contributions of Indigenous peoples.

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

On the SMBE IDEA Task Force we aim to support efforts to remove the barriers that have historically excluded many voices from science 🗣️

I'm truly confused 🤔

I asked #ChatGPT to summarize a series of notes I had on a statistical interpretation. It then asked me if I wanted a visual summary of the topic (again, statistics, numbers, etc.). I said yes, just yes. This is what it created:

#AcademicSky #Bioinformatics

Pro-level advice right there! 🏆✨

Can we all agree that clothes stay on the drying rack until someone’s coming over? 👕🧺

That's suspicious, don't trust it. Surely it's a virus.

😑 I just can’t today. My script kept crashing over and over, and in the end, it was just a damn indentation error. Falling into the same mistakes after all these years feels like a loop that can only be broken with swearing 🤬 #Bioinformatics #AcademicSky

💚 Today is 𝙒𝙤𝙧𝙡𝙙 𝙈𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙖𝙡 𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙡𝙩𝙝 𝘿𝙖𝙮!

Let’s take a moment to care for ourselves and each other 🌱

The 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗧𝗮𝘀𝗸 𝗙𝗼𝗿𝗰𝗲 and @official-smbe.bsky.social support mental well-being in science 🧠✨

💬 Share your favorite self-care tip below & let’s support our community! #WorldMentalHealthDay #AcademicSky

🤝 In 2024, the 𝗦𝗠𝗕𝗘 𝗡𝗼𝗻-𝗣𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗰𝗵𝘂𝘁𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗶𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗙𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Boris Armel Olou, Jean Legeay, Jean Evans Israel Codjia & Roël Dire Houdanon for their project strengthening African researchers in Molecular Biology & Bioinformatics.

✨ Excited about the impact so far!

🤝 In 2024, the 𝗜𝗗𝗘𝗔 𝗴𝗿𝗮𝗻𝘁 from @official-smbe.bsky.social went to Drs. Rori Rohlfs and Emilia Huerta-Sanchez for their podcast ScienceWise!

✨ We are happy to have contributed to their project!

🎙️ @sciencewisepod.bsky.social

🔥 Time's ticking! Share your vision for inclusion & equity in science!

⏰ Deadline: 𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟭𝟬

@official-smbe.bsky.social
@smbe-idea.bsky.social
#AcademicSky

❗REMINDER - the call for proposals for SMBE IDEA initiatives for 2025/2026 will close soon - apply by October 10th

Categories:

💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

More info
smbe.org/idea-initiatives
@smbe-idea.bsky.social

🔥 Don't miss the opportunity! Submit your proposal 𝙉𝙊𝙒! 🌈

#AcademicSky #IDEA #SMBE2026
@official-smbe.bsky.social

a woman in a suit says everything hurts and i 'm dying . ALT: a woman in a suit says everything hurts and i 'm dying .

Moving to another country for a few months. #academiclife #academicsky

Excited but also:

thanks 🩷✨

✨ In my latest paper, I used 𝙥𝙧𝙚𝙜𝙣𝙖𝙣𝙩 𝙥𝙚𝙤𝙥𝙡𝙚 instead of “pregnant women", because pregnancy is not exclusive to those who identify as women 🤰

📢 Using inclusive language is part of our responsibility as scientists to fight erasure of transgender and nonbinary people 🏳️‍⚧️ #AcademicSky #QueerInSTEM

IDEA Initiatives SMBE, through the IDEA (Inclusion, Diversity, Equity, and Access) Task Force, aims to address systemic racism, sexism, colonialism, and other exclusion in our society. SMBE DIVERSITY STATEMENT Our goa...

🌍✨ SMBE IDEA 2026 – Call for Proposals!

We support initiatives that tackle inequities in evolutionary biology.

Funding available:
💡 IDEA ($25k)
🪂 Non-Parachute Science ($10k)
🗣️ Outreach ($10k)

📅 Deadline: Oct 10, 2025
🔗 docs.google.com/forms/d/1we2...

Genotype imputation from low-coverage data for medical and population genetic analyses genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9... 🧬🖥️🧪 github.com/SABiagini/GDI

🧬 Now published in Bioinformatics Advances: "DNPcall: A new pipeline for accurate double nucleotide polymorphism calling"

Read the full paper here: https://doi.org/10.1093/bioadv/vbaf209 

Authors include: @eugeniadat.bsky.social

Neanderthals lived ~350,000 years without governments, capitalism, or wrecking ecosystems.

We Homo sapiens, in just 300,000 years (and especially the last 200), have trashed the planet.

Just saying.

Anything to promote my new paper (and yes that includes this photo). I put six years of my mental health into this one 😅🧬🔥

📝 Go read it! ⬇️

🔗 genome.cshlp.org/content/35/9...

#AcademicSky